Mel & Floyd

Mel & Floyd

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Mel & Floyd episodes

  • Helpful Hints for Living

    This week on Mel & Floyd: Saga co-hosts with Mr. Smarty Pants while Mel is on injured reserve; All about the queens; A scathing letter; How cats identify people [“odor donors”??]; Another coffee study; Positive effects of exercise; A collection of poetry by the dear leader?; Whales’ vision issues; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete “Mel and Floyd Experience,” buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 fm or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time

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    55 min
  • We Cannot Build Bananas

    This week on Mel & Floyd: A visit from Esty; Pledge now for a Mindless Minion card, or spend big for the special “Prepper Program”; Which beer pairs best with Mozart?; Saga stops by; Chris gets his solvent fix; The actual world’s smallest violin; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete “Mel and Floyd Experience,” buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 fm or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time

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    56 min
  • Deep in the Spleen of Texas

    This week on Mel & Floyd: A visit from “Saga”; Gardening tips and denominational distinctions; Is golf a sport or a game?; King Charles in Canada; Incoming Canadian Wall of Smoke; The “Gold IRA” scam; Driverless trucks?; Toothbrush narcs on Brit; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete “Mel and Floyd Experience,” buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 fm or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time

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    57 min
  • The Ability to Visualize Counterfactuals

    This week on Mel & Floyd: Trolling for catnip in Columbus; Are straws “unmanly”?; The Darwinian jungle of ideas; Low-lights of the “Big Beautiful Bill”; No US representation at WHO?; RFK Jr is occasionally right; Engine block cooking; Wisconsin education spending near the bottom of the country; Gila Monster venom for weight loss; Steroid-positive “Enhanced Games” in Vegas; Decline in use of semicolons [but not here!]; Capuchin monkey kidnappers; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete “Mel and Floyd Experience,” buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 fm or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time

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    57 min
  • The Flatulent Smog

    This week on Mel & Floyd: Farewell to Chali; A WORT history lesson; All about Spain, More on trump corruption; Misuse of the National Guard; An epidemic of anti-vax legislation; Claiming credit for Biden’s work; Fraud at Social Security – by the people investigating!; A tax break for gun silencers??; Melvina graduates!; Reality show competition for U.S. Citizenship?; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy nails it; Fitchburg’s origin story; Chimpanzee vocalization & drumming;  And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete “Mel and Floyd Experience,” buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 fm or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time

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    56 min
  • Trees Are Trying to Have Sex With My Nose

    This week on Mel & Floyd: Mel’s cadaver knee in action; Which sports team does the Pope support?; North Carolina judge finally gives up trying to steal election; Measuring neutrinos; Are “chemtrails” turning Florida’s frogs gay?; Weak passwords at the NSA; How Esty wins arguments; Do golf courses cause Parkinson’s?; Revisionist [inaccurate] history in Oklahoma; Cave Art in Africa; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete “Mel and Floyd Experience,” buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 fm or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time

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    57 min
  • The Perfect Monorail Salesman

    This week on Mel & Floyd: It’s the “National No-Pants Day” Special!!; Cabinet meeting devolves into butt kissing competition; Wall Street Journal reporting the truth?; Is “he” REALLY getting a military parade for his birthday??; Whooping cough on the upswing; Saving 258,000,000 lives???; Confederate memorial day in Alabama; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete “Mel and Floyd Experience,” buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 fm or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday.

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    56 min
  • So Ridiculously Over the Top and Corrupt

    This week on Mel & Floyd: The WORT Zeppelin brings the funk; Pope Francis in retrospect; Police state reaches Milwaukee judge; Ironically named Department of “Justice” investigating Act Blue; Tax increase for millionaires? Not so much!; Distracting from the bone spurs; Resurrecting 9/11 conspiracy theories; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete “Mel and Floyd Experience,” buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-fi while listening to this podcast!

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    56 min
  • A Musk Ox in a China Shop

    This week on Mel & Floyd: Full house: Floyd joins Mel and Smarty Pants!; Old guys discuss surgery; Space travel tales; White House manipulating time and space??; Measles at Ft. Bliss; The “joys” of coal mining; Overachieving sperm donor in the Netherlands; Adventures with AI; The great Swedish moose migration; And other random topics;  Notice something missing?  We had to remove the music from the podcast version of Mel & Floyd.  For the complete experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-fi while listening to this podcast!

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    57 min
  • The World’s Biggest Hillbilly Nation

    This week on Mel & Floyd: Again with the films!; Action WIsconsin attempting to get film making incentives through the state legislature; Talk about tariffs; How to “turn gay” at the airport; Gold Mussolini-esque pins for cabinet members; St Peters papal pop-up; Volcano watch in Alaska; trump’s delusion about coal miners; Hero rat in Cambodia; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.

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    57 min

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